Cryptoscatology

Friday, March 16, 2018

Given that less than two weeks had passed since posting "The Coming Space War" on Cryptoscatology.com, I wasn't at all blindsided when I heard President Trump announcing his "new national strategy for space" during an address delivered to service members at--of all places--the Miramar Marine base in San Diego, a setting well known to readers of Chameleo. What follows is from a 3-13-18 Daily Beast post entitled "Trump Proposes U.S. 'Space Force' to Guard the Galaxy'":

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to create a U.S. 'Space Force' during a speech before service members at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. 'My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land air and sea. We may even have a Space Force,' Trump said. 'We’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space, and I said, maybe we need a new force. We’ll call it the Space Force.' Trump was most likely referring to theNational Defense Authorization Act, which was signed intolaw onDec. 12and stipulates that the defense secretary 'establish in the executive part of the Department of the Air Force a Space Corps.' Back inJuly, senior Air Force officials told CNN that the corps was an 'unnecessary change in the force’s existing space efforts.'"

My latest short story, "Collision," has just been published in the debut issue of New Reader Magazine. New Reader #1, entitled "Multivision," was unleashed upon the world only a few hours ago. This initial issue is completely free of charge, so if you would like to read "Collision," simply click HERE to download your (gratis) copy of New Reader Magazine #1. "Collision" begins on p. 157.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

In case you missed Part One of my epic two-part interview on Seriah Azkath's radio show, WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? (which aired this past Saturday night), the entire episode is now available to be heard right HERE. This episode covers my books UNTIL THE LAST DOG DIES,CHAMELEO,SPIES & SAUCERS,CRYPTOSCATOLOGYand related High Weirdness such as hordes of invisible midgets attacking drug addicts in San Diego, Operation Mind Control,porn for right-wingers, stolen DOD laptop computers, wild adventures with irate NCIS agents, Kafkaesque torture techniques deployed against the inmates of a jail in downtown San Diego, sonic weapons, acoustic bullets, poltergeist technology, the most haunted house in California, the ongoing dangers of the post-9/11 ballooning black budget, the Curious Affair of the Night Vision Goggles, CryptoWikpedia, wandering over the border of San Diego with a thermonuclear bomb strapped to one's shoulders, leapfrogging robots, machine-gun-toting ape-men in the wilds of Santee, human-animal hybrids trapped in a secret underground military base beneath the barren deserts of Arizona, the government harassment of Philip K. Dick, and dramatic food fights with jarhead federal agents.

Recommended: Below are three separate interviews with Christopher Bledsoe, Sr. who discusses his 2007 extraterrestrial (and/or ultraterrestrial) encounters in the woods of Fayetteville, North Carolina....

Friday, March 9, 2018

For those of you interested in the work of David Paulides (author of Missing 411), I suggest reading Steve Hughes and Emily Masters' 2-22-18 Times Union article entitled "State Police Still Investigating Missing Skier's Story":

"Police in Sacramento found [Constantino] Filippidis
still wearing the ski clothing he had on when he disappeared, including
his helmet and goggles, the union president said. Filippidis was given
medical attention and taken to a local hospital, where he later spoke
with his two children on the phone, [Frank] Ramagnano said [...]

"His
disappearance prompted a massive search of Whiteface Mountain with
search-and-rescue crews poring over the mountain while other skiers
passed by on the trails. Filippidis contacted local authorities from a
Sacramento area airport Feb. 13, ending a massive six-day search,
troopers said.

"The
search included at least six government agencies, two ski patrols and
several local volunteer groups. More than 135 people spent a combined
7,000 hours on the rugged mountain in varying winter weather conditions,
officials have said. A helicopter and search dogs were also called in
to assist.

"State officials have declined to estimate the cost.

"Before
he resurfaced, Filippidis had been last seen at the Whiteface Mountain
ski resort's mid-station about 2:30 p.m. Feb. 7. He was part of a group
of Toronto firefighters making their annual ski trip. His colleagues
reported him missing at 4:30 p.m. when he did not return from his last
run of the day. Police found his car, passport and other identification
cards at the resort, officials said.

Six days later, Filippidis called his wife, who was in Lake Placid meeting with the search party, Ramagnano said.

"'Apparently
he was confused and he wasn't able to give direct answers,' Ramagnano
said during a news conference in Toronto broadcast by CTV."

Thursday, March 8, 2018

In his 3-7-18 New York Times article, "We're All Fascists Now," Bari Weiss analyzes the many strategic distractions plaguing the left-wing in "the Disassociated States of America" (an increasingly apt phrase coined by my late friend and colleague, Walter Bowart). What follow are a few relevant excerpts:

"We
live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the
actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise. Italy just gave the
plurality of its vote to a party that is highly sympathetic to Vladimir
Putin. The Philippines is in the grip of a homicidal maniac who is
allying himself with Xi Jinping. Mr. Xi just anointed himself president
for life and has banned the words 'Animal Farm' and 'disagree' from
Chinese internet searches. Bashar al-Assad is winning in Syria, where
half a million people have so far been slaughtered. Dictatorship and
starvation have descended on Venezuela. At its annual conference in
Washington last month, the Conservative Political Action Committee gave
its stage, and its enthusiastic applause, to a member of France’s
National Front. That’s just a short list.

"Yet
these are generally not the extremists that leftists focus on. Instead,
they seem to believe that the real cause for concern are the secret
authoritarians passing as liberals and conservatives in our midst [...].

"Why are so many demonstrably non-fascist people being accused of fascism? [...]

"Partly [...] it is the result of a lack of political proportion and priority.
It’s instructive that students at the University of Chicago spent their
energy a few years backprotesting Dan Savage,
the progressive sex columnist who used the word 'tranny' in a talk that
included a discussion about reclaiming words, while ignoring a lecture
the very same week by former Senator Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania
Republican who has compared gay relationships to bestiality. Freud
called this the narcissism of small differences [...].

"There
are consequences to all this 'fascism' — and not just the reputational
damage to those who are smeared, though there is surely that.

"The
main effect is that these endless accusations of 'fascism' or 'misogyny' or 'alt-right' dull the effects of the words themselves. As
they are stripped of meaning, they strip us of our sharpness — of our
ability to react forcefully to real fascists and misogynists or members
of the alt-right."

About Me

I'm the author of CRYPTOSCATOLOGY: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS ART FORM (TrineDay, 2012) as well as SPIES & SAUCERS, a collection of three novellas (available from PS Publishing at: http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/spies-and-saucers-jhc-robert-guffey-2158-p.asp), and CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY (available from OR Books at: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/chameleo/). My most recent book is UNTIL THE LAST DOG DIES (available from Night Shade Books at: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/book/until-the-last-dog-dies/#.Wf-RnIhrzcs). If you would like to buy a signed copy of CRYPTOSCATOLOGY, simply click on the button below.